Refutes Thomas Jefferson's accusations against Cresap

Mayer, Brantz

Tah-Gah-Jute; or, Logan and Cresap, an Historical Essay. [Munsell's Series of Local American History. No. VII (7)]

Albany: Joel Munsell, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2306769

First thus. Light 2 inch stain along top margin of some pages, ink name and date on front endpaper.

x, 204 pp. "The war leader Logan, of the Mingo Indians, accused Cresap of murdering his family. Logan's wife and pregnant sister were among those murdered. In fact, the killings were almost certainly perpetrated by Daniel Greathouse, yet Cresap was immortalized in Logan's speech — quoted in Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) — as the murderer of Logan's family. As a result of the murders, Logan waged war on the settlements along the Ohio and in western Pennsylvania, killing, perhaps, nearly thirty men, women and children. Lord John Murray Dunmore, the British Royal Governor of Virginia, raised an army and appointed Cresap to the rank of Captain. The decisive battle of Lord Dunmore's War was the Battle of Point Pleasant (10 October 1774) in Virginia (now West Virginia). Here Dunmore's forces defeated a band of Shawnee Indians led by Cornstalk. After Lord Dunmore's War, Cresap returned to Maryland and subsequently raised a company of riflemen for the Continental Army during the American Revolution." Sabin 47105: "An amplification of the former work [see Howes reference below], and a vindication of Capt. Cresap against the charge of murdering the family of Logan, which leaves some odium on the name of Thomas Jefferson. This edition forms No. VII. of 'Munsell's Series of Local American History.'" Howes M-451: "Refutes Jefferson's accusations against Cresap."

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